Swiss Book Prize 2016: ‘The Dead’ outlives Other Authors (Satis Shroff) The Swiss Book Prize (Schweizer Buchpreis) is a literary award awarded annually by a jury on behalf of the Swiss Booksellers' Association. The prize amount is CHF 30,000. The award was instituted in 2008 following the example of the German Book Prize. Only German language works of authors living in Switzerland or of Swiss nationality are eligible. This year the Prize was awarded to Christian Kracht. The winner of the Swiss Book Prize 2016 is Christian Kracht and his novel ‘Die Toten,’ the Dead. It outlived the other four novels from the Swiss short-list. The also-rans were: Sacha Batthany, Christopher Höhtker, Charles Lewinsky and Michelle Steinbeck. Three authors were really up to the mark in the battle for the Swiss Prize. Christoph Höhtker came up with a novel about Bielefeld. It made an impact on readers from Bielefeld, Germany. The other contender was a journalist from Zurich named sa
